NO DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN DOCTORS WORKING AT HIGHER LEVEL OR LOWER LEVEL
On October 12, 2019, the Minister of Health issues the Circular No. 35/2019/TT-BYT on promulgating the scope of professional operation for medical practitioners.
Accordingly, medical practitioners mean doctors whose scope of professional operation is general medical examination and treatment shall conduct professional techniques and in case the treatment of a disease goes beyond their professional capacity - shall provide first aid, supervision, care and treatment for the patients until such patients are transferred to other medical examination and treatment establishments.
Medical practitioners who are preventive medicine doctors shall examine, detect and handle with common diseases; and shall provide first aids in community in some certain circumstances. Medical practitioners who are assistant doctors working at commune level shall provide first aids,
conduct medical examination and treatment of common diseases in accordance with regulations of the Joint Circular No.10/2015/TTLT-BYT-BNV dated May 27, 2015 of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Medical practitioners who are nurses, midwives, and technicians shall perform in accordance with their respective scope of professional operation prescribed in the Circular No. 26/2015/TTLT-BYT-BNV dated November 07, 2015 of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Principal of defining the scope of professional operation is no discrimination between doctors working at higher level and those working at lower level; between doctors who have recently acquired practice certificates and those who have worked for years.
This Circular takes effect from March 01, 2020.
